People on the outside think there’s something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn’t like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that’s all there is to it.
Harlan Ellison
Quotes
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
Beatrix Potter
There is something delicious
Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.
David Lynch
Ideas are like fish
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself. It’s a self-exploratory operation that is endless.
Harper Lee
Any writer worth his salt
Writing is a job, a talent, but it’s also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
Ann Patchett